North West HP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of HP products and/or services in IT contracts within the North West region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited HP over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Barnet Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bolton Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Douglas Dundee Durham Ealing East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Ely England Essex Fareham Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Kent King's Lynn Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Letchworth Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Rickmansworth Rotherham Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southall Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans St Asaph Staines Stevenage Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	79	61
Rank change on same period last year	-18
Matching contract IT job ads	52	91
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.073 %	0.091 %
As % of the category below	3.388 %	4.754 %
Daily rates quoted	9	17
Average minimum daily rate	£288	£249
Average daily rate	£307	£271
% change on same period last year	+13.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£326	£294
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£348
% change on same period last year	-3.23 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.09	£15.94
Average hourly rate	£19.61	£16.88
% change on same period last year	+16.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.14	£17.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.60	£24.94
% change on same period last year	-9.36 %
Vendors North West
Matching contract IT job ads	1535	1914
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.144 %	1.923 %
Daily rates quoted	326	428
Average minimum daily rate	£331	£321
Average daily rate	£348	£339
% change on same period last year	+2.86 %
Average maximum daily rate	£365	£357
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£354
% change on same period last year	+1.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	215	198
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.20	£20.08
Average hourly rate	£22.66	£21.65
% change on same period last year	+4.64 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.11	£23.23
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.36	£24.43
% change on same period last year	-0.31 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Hewlett-Packard Company.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing HP across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing HP across the North West region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HP across the North West region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing HP across the North West region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HP across the North West region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP within the North West region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cheshire	-8	28	£408	+54.01 %
Manchester	-5	15	£226	-4.84 %
Merseyside	-1	6	£410	+42.60 %
Lancashire	+1	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing HP also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited HP.

1 69 (47.59 %) Windows 2 54 (37.24 %) UNIX 3 34 (23.45 %) Mainframe 4 32 (22.07 %) IBM 5 28 (19.31 %) Windows Server 2003 6 27 (18.62 %) SAN 7 26 (17.93 %) Citrix 8 22 (15.17 %) Microsoft 9 21 (14.48 %) HPUX 9 21 (14.48 %) Tivoli 10 20 (13.79 %) Solaris 10 20 (13.79 %) Dell 10 20 (13.79 %) Finance 11 19 (13.10 %) Active Directory 11 19 (13.10 %) AIX

11 19 (13.10 %) Windows NT 12 17 (11.72 %) OpenView 12 17 (11.72 %) Change Management 13 16 (11.03 %) Windows 2000 14 15 (10.34 %) ITIL 15 13 (8.966 %) Oracle 15 13 (8.966 %) Internet 16 12 (8.276 %) Tandem 16 12 (8.276 %) Middleware 17 11 (7.586 %) Microsoft Certification 18 10 (6.897 %) MS Office 18 10 (6.897 %) MCSE 18 10 (6.897 %) Shell Script 18 10 (6.897 %) Banking 18 10 (6.897 %) OMEGAMON

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing HP also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited HP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 12 (8.276 %) Middleware 2 7 (4.828 %) WebSphere 3 3 (2.069 %) WBIMB 3 3 (2.069 %) XML 4 2 (1.379 %) .NET 4 2 (1.379 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 7 (4.828 %) Lotus Notes 2 6 (4.138 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 4 (2.759 %) MS Exchange 3 4 (2.759 %) SAS 3 4 (2.759 %) WebSphere MQ 3 4 (2.759 %) Gentran 4 1 (0.690 %) Oracle Application Server 4 1 (0.690 %) Exchange Server 5.5 4 1 (0.690 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 1 (0.690 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 1 (0.690 %) OnBase 4 1 (0.690 %) IIS 4 1 (0.690 %) Apache 4 1 (0.690 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 10 (6.897 %) MS Office 2 2 (1.379 %) MS Excel 2 2 (1.379 %) MS Visio 3 1 (0.690 %) CA Clarity 3 1 (0.690 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 2 (1.379 %) Oracle Applications 2 1 (0.690 %) SAP APO 2 1 (0.690 %) Oracle CRM
Communications & Networking 1 27 (18.62 %) SAN 2 13 (8.966 %) Internet 3 8 (5.517 %) Network Security 4 6 (4.138 %) Firewall 4 6 (4.138 %) TCP/IP 5 5 (3.448 %) LAN 6 4 (2.759 %) WAN 6 4 (2.759 %) DNS 7 3 (2.069 %) VLAN 7 3 (2.069 %) VoIP 7 3 (2.069 %) BGP 7 3 (2.069 %) EIGRP 8 2 (1.379 %) SSL 8 2 (1.379 %) DHCP 9 1 (0.690 %) SNMP 9 1 (0.690 %) SMS 9 1 (0.690 %) VPN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (3.448 %) BusinessObjects 2 4 (2.759 %) Adabas 3 2 (1.379 %) ETL 3 2 (1.379 %) Oracle 10g 3 2 (1.379 %) PowerCenter 3 2 (1.379 %) BusinessObjects XI 4 1 (0.690 %) SAP BW 4 1 (0.690 %) NonStop SQL 4 1 (0.690 %) DB2 4 1 (0.690 %) Oracle Reports 4 1 (0.690 %) Oracle 9i
Development Applications 1 4 (2.759 %) TestDirector 1 4 (2.759 %) LoadRunner 2 2 (1.379 %) QuickTest Pro 3 1 (0.690 %) Rational Robot 3 1 (0.690 %) WinRunner	General 1 20 (13.79 %) Finance 2 10 (6.897 %) Banking 3 8 (5.517 %) Government 4 5 (3.448 %) Retail 5 4 (2.759 %) Health 5 4 (2.759 %) Financial Institution 6 3 (2.069 %) Pharmaceutical 7 2 (1.379 %) Back Office 7 2 (1.379 %) Telecoms 7 2 (1.379 %) Retail Banking 8 1 (0.690 %) Online Banking 8 1 (0.690 %) Legal 8 1 (0.690 %) Publishing 8 1 (0.690 %) Home Office 8 1 (0.690 %) Insurance 8 1 (0.690 %) Local Government
Job Titles 1 24 (16.55 %) Consultant 2 13 (8.966 %) Infrastructure Designer 3 9 (6.207 %) Analyst 4 7 (4.828 %) Network Engineer 4 7 (4.828 %) Administrator 4 7 (4.828 %) Desktop Engineer 5 6 (4.138 %) UNIX Administrator 5 6 (4.138 %) Infrastructure Specialist 5 6 (4.138 %) Support Engineer 5 6 (4.138 %) Developer 5 6 (4.138 %) Tester 6 5 (3.448 %) Desktop Support 6 5 (3.448 %) Security Specialist 6 5 (3.448 %) Hardware Engineer 7 4 (2.759 %) Desktop Support Engineer 7 4 (2.759 %) Architect 7 4 (2.759 %) Technical Support 7 4 (2.759 %) Technical Consultant 7 4 (2.759 %) Infrastructure Engineer 7 4 (2.759 %) WebSphere Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 34 (23.45 %) Mainframe 2 12 (8.276 %) Tandem 3 6 (4.138 %) NHS 4 3 (2.069 %) Blackberry 4 3 (2.069 %) Replication 4 3 (2.069 %) Clustering 5 2 (1.379 %) EPoS 6 1 (0.690 %) HACMP 6 1 (0.690 %) NPfIT 6 1 (0.690 %) Cryptography 6 1 (0.690 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 69 (47.59 %) Windows 2 54 (37.24 %) UNIX 3 28 (19.31 %) Windows Server 2003 4 21 (14.48 %) HPUX 5 20 (13.79 %) Solaris 6 19 (13.10 %) AIX 6 19 (13.10 %) Windows NT 7 16 (11.03 %) Windows 2000 8 9 (6.207 %) Linux 9 8 (5.517 %) Windows 2000 Server 10 4 (2.759 %) Red Hat Linux 10 4 (2.759 %) Windows XP 11 2 (1.379 %) NetWare 12 1 (0.690 %) zOS	Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (11.72 %) Change Management 2 15 (10.34 %) ITIL 3 8 (5.517 %) Security Cleared 4 7 (4.828 %) Project Management 5 6 (4.138 %) Disaster Recovery 6 5 (3.448 %) SC Cleared 6 5 (3.448 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 4 (2.759 %) Problem Management 8 3 (2.069 %) Software Engineering 8 3 (2.069 %) E-business 8 3 (2.069 %) Service Management 9 2 (1.379 %) PRINCE2 9 2 (1.379 %) CRM 9 2 (1.379 %) Configuration Management 9 2 (1.379 %) Asset Management 9 2 (1.379 %) Incident Management 9 2 (1.379 %) Test Scripting 9 2 (1.379 %) System Testing 10 1 (0.690 %) Performance Testing 10 1 (0.690 %) Use Case
Programming Languages 1 10 (6.897 %) Shell Script 2 6 (4.138 %) SQL 3 4 (2.759 %) Perl 3 4 (2.759 %) NATURAL 3 4 (2.759 %) FoxPro (VFP) 4 2 (1.379 %) C 5 1 (0.690 %) PL/SQL 5 1 (0.690 %) VB	Qualifications 1 11 (7.586 %) Microsoft Certification 2 10 (6.897 %) MCSE 3 6 (4.138 %) Cisco Certification 3 6 (4.138 %) CCNA 4 4 (2.759 %) CCNP 5 2 (1.379 %) MCP 5 2 (1.379 %) ISEB 6 1 (0.690 %) CCA 6 1 (0.690 %) Citrix Certification 6 1 (0.690 %) Dell Certification 6 1 (0.690 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 6 1 (0.690 %) Degree 6 1 (0.690 %) HP AIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.690 %) SLA 1 1 (0.690 %) QA	System Software 1 19 (13.10 %) Active Directory 2 5 (3.448 %) Backup Exec 3 4 (2.759 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 4 (2.759 %) VMware ESX 3 4 (2.759 %) NetBackup 4 2 (1.379 %) MetaFrame 4 2 (1.379 %) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management 1 21 (14.48 %) Tivoli 2 17 (11.72 %) OpenView 3 10 (6.897 %) OMEGAMON 4 5 (3.448 %) Tivoli Monitoring 4 5 (3.448 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 5 4 (2.759 %) ServiceCenter 6 3 (2.069 %) CiscoWorks 7 2 (1.379 %) MOM 8 1 (0.690 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 8 1 (0.690 %) BMC PATROL 8 1 (0.690 %) DameWare 8 1 (0.690 %) Legato	Vendors 1 32 (22.07 %) IBM 2 26 (17.93 %) Citrix 3 22 (15.17 %) Microsoft 4 20 (13.79 %) Dell 5 13 (8.966 %) Oracle 6 9 (6.207 %) VERITAS 6 9 (6.207 %) Cisco 7 8 (5.517 %) VMware 8 7 (4.828 %) Lotus 8 7 (4.828 %) EMC 9 5 (3.448 %) Business Objects 9 5 (3.448 %) Toshiba 10 4 (2.759 %) Red Hat 10 4 (2.759 %) Sun 10 4 (2.759 %) Compaq 10 4 (2.759 %) Novell 11 3 (2.069 %) SAP 11 3 (2.069 %) Remedy 12 2 (1.379 %) ProCurve 12 2 (1.379 %) Fujitsu Siemens